DEATH AND NATIONWIDE PROTESTS,

SOME SAY IT'S TIME FOR IT TO GO.

>> WHAT SHOULD I DO?

>> FRANKLY MY DEAR, I DON'T GIVE

A DAMN.

>> Reporter: THIS MORNING AN

AMERICAN CINEMA CLASSIC "GONE

WITH THE WIND" HAS BEEN

TEMPORARILY PULLED BY HBO MAX.

FOR YEARS THE MOVIE HAS BEEN

CONSIDERED CONTROVERSIAL FOR ITS

DEPICTION OF BLACK PEOPLE AND

GLORIFICATION OF SLAVERY.

IN A STATEMENT, HBO MAX WRITING

IN PART, THESE RACIST DEPICTIONS

WERE WRONG THEN AND ARE WRONG

TODAY.

AND KEEPING THIS TITLE UP

WITHOUT AN EXPLANATION AND

DENOUNCEMENT OF THOSE DEPICTIONS

WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE.

ADDING THE FILM WILL RETURN WITH

THE DISCUSSION OF ITS HISTORICAL

CONTEXT AND A DENOUNCEMENT OF

THOSE VERY DEPICTIONS.

>> I AIM FOR YOU TO GO TO MR.

JOHN WILKINSON'S.

>> Reporter: THE MOVE COMES IN

THE WAKE OF NATIONWIDE PROTESTS

OVER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD

AND INCREASED CALLS TO END

SYSTEMIC RACISM.

ON TUESDAY OSCAR WINNER JOHN

RIDLEY, THE SCREEN WRITER OF "12

YEARS A SLAVE" PUBLISHED AN

OP-ED IN THE L.A. TIMES CALLING

FOR THE FILM'S REMOVAL WRITING,

IT IS A FILM THAT WHEN IT IS NOT

IGNORING THE HORRORS OF SLAVERY

PAUSES ONLY TO PERPETUATE SOME

OF THE MOST PAINFUL STEREOTYPES

OF PEOPLE OF COLOR.

>> ONE FEMALE IN CUSTODY.

>> Reporter: IT COMES AS OTHER

NETWORKS ARE PULLING CONTENT

AMID THE PROTESTS.

"COPS" HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY

DROPPED AFTER 30 YEARS ON THE

AIR.

WHILE "LIVE PD" IS REMOVED EDD F

NOW.

SAYING IT'S OUT OF RESPECT FOR

FAMILIES OF GEORGE FLOYD AND

OTHERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES.

AND IN THE FITNESS INDUSTRY, A

SHOCKING RESIGNATION.

CROSSFIT CEO GREG GLASSMAN

STEPPING DOWN AFTER TWEETS ABOUT

FLOYD SPARKED BACKLASH.

IN ONE TWEET HE SAID FLOYD-19.

IN A STATEMENT, GLASSMAN SAYING

HE MADE A MISTAKE WRITING IN

PART, I CREATED A RIFT IN THE

CROSSFIT COMMUNITY AND

UNINTENTIONALLY HURT MANY OF ITS

MEMBERS.

GLASSMAN ALSO SAYING THAT HE

MADE A MISTAKE IN THE WORDS HE

CHOSE ADDING HE IS NOT RACIST.

MEANTIME IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS,

BUBBA WALLACE, NASCAR'S ONLY

FULL-TIME DRIVER IS PUSHING FOR

CONFEDERATE FLAGS TO BE REMOVED

FROM ALL NASCAR TRACKS SAYING

THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF

ANGRY PEOPLE WHO CARRY THOSE

FLAGS PROUDLY BUT IT'S TIME FOR

CHANGE.

>> BUBBA ALSO SAYING HE'S GOING